* StayInTheKitchen: Polly gets coffee for the weather machine operators (leading to the Doctor solving how some people were getting a disease), and there is one specific moment where she's planned a clever ScienceHero way of defeating the Cybermen and Ben tries this on Polly. She doesn't listen.makes her stop because 'this is no job for a bird'.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The base is staffed with an international group of scientists, all white except for one black man. He is the first to be killed, getting bumped off in Episode 1 [[spoiler: although it is later revealed that he was just kidnapped by the Cybermen and made a partially-converted slave]].

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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The base is staffed with an international group of scientists, all white except for one black man. He is the first to be killed, getting bumped off in Episode 1 [[spoiler: 1, although it is later revealed that he was just kidnapped by the Cybermen and made a partially-converted slave]].slave.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: The base is staffed with an international group of scientists, all white except for one black man. He is the first to be killed, getting bumped off in Episode 1 [[spoiler: although it is later revealed that he was just kidnapped by the Cybermen and made a partially-converted slave]].

It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock will be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis used later]]. [[/note]]

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It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock will be be]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis used later]]. [[/note]]

It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis will be used later]]. [[/note]]

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It's 2070 AD and Earth's weather is controlled from a station on the Moon by means of the Graviton. The crew of the station are coming down with a disease that turns out to be a Cyberman-engineered poison. Polly and Ben realise that as Cybermen are part-plastic, solvents ought to harm them, and mix up a cocktail of chemicals which they use in fire extinguishers to defeat the Cybermen on the base.[[note]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Gold]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Gold]] will be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis will be used later]]. [[/note]]

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: As ''Doctor Who Magazine'' later pointed out, Polly's "cocktail" of solvents would end up reacting against each other and turn into a thick brown gunge, totally different from the clear liquid presented in the episode. That issue also guessed that she was throwing any solvent she could at them in the hopes that something would work.

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